Bee-Skep Making

Heritage, folklore and how to make and use your own skeps

Chris Park (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2026
Herbert Press Ltd (Verlag)
9781789943306 (ISBN)

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A beekeeper's guide to straw skep-building, including sections on bee history and mythology, practical skep beekeeping, and making honey and wax products.

Dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, the bee skep is essentially an upturned lipwork basket with a small bee entrance near the base. Offering a less intensive industrialised environment than the box hives widely used today, skeps are friendlier to the bees' way of working and – properly used – can be better for their health and resilience.

Perhaps you’ve considered moving away from box hives yourself and revitalising ancient beekeeping traditions? With no full-time skep-makers in the UK, the practice is on Heritage Craft’s Red List of endangered crafts so you may need to make your own.

Master skep maker and beekeeper Chris Park helps you learn these revered skills with step-by-step photographic guidance on skep construction, as well as instructions for making the protective straw cone or 'hackle' to go over the top. He provides tips on settling swarms and managing colonies using traditional techniques, and for harvesting your honey and honeycomb, draining them into jars and producing mead and candles.

Woven into this is a rich potted history of skep beekeeping, its folklore and heritage, and an exploration of honey’s medicinal properties, offering up a wealth of knowledge as you perfect your skep-making skills.

Chris Park is the world's leading expert on bee skeps and teaches skep-making for the British Beekeeping Association, the National Honey Show and special interest groups. He is also a skep-beekeeper, apitherapist and writer with a wider interest in arts and crafts, ancient technologies, eco-building and folk music.

Introduction
A Skep Back in Time
The Heritage of Honey
The Symbolic Skep
Handbuilding Your Own Skep
Skep Beekeeping
The Harvest
The Mead and The Medicines

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.6.2026
Zusatzinfo	Illustrated throughout with colourful photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-13	9781789943306 / 9781789943306
Zustand	Neuware